Funny, isn't it? I had a good rhythm going, got a bit of a head-cold and some writer's-block on the previous post, and then, when I'd finally posted it, went down with something far worse, on the details of which I will not regale you, just in case it's breakfast-time where you are, but it took me out for nearly a week, and I was really quite ill, in a way I haven't been for many years.
Probably not since I was delirious with Gastroenteritis as a teenager and the motorcycle posters on my bedroom wall, started chasing me round the room, while the GP was trying to take my temperature! My 61st also slid-by in the last few days, strangely more of a milestone (mentally) than the round 60, last year?
Anyway, this is the second of the Kandytoys posts - they write it both ways and seem to be building KTL as a brand mark, presumably to compete equally with the rival HGL and HTI marks, although they are pretty freindly rivals for the most part, and always stall-out near each-other at these big trade shows.
Pretty much the same stuff as last time, but there's a load of new space items in this post which weren't in the inventory two years ago, and everyone likes new images!
Not 100% sure on these, some confusion on photo-order, but I think I shot them on the way back down the other side of the aisle, however someone else definitely had them, and they will be in another post, they are 3D printed stock, in both (?) cases being bought-in from a/the same 3rd-party?
You can find plenty of YouTube, TikTok and 'Reel' type shorts of this stuff being printed, it's clever, but it's automated and after some interest/involvement in the original conversations on the HäT forum, back in 2007/8, I will not post much on the subject, as it's almost limitless in its scope, whether one is talking about subject mater, plastic type or scale.
Indeed, one of the points I made in those distant (and long-ago deleted by 'H') threads, that it would eventually end the toy industry, seems closer to the truth. Literally it's infinite, and while I like seeing the odd bit, I'm not going to look at it here with any regularity, maybe the odd figure/vehicle, occasionally?
But these are quite clever, in that the fully animated model is printed in one piece, and with a few twisting clicks of the moulding, becomes the modern equivalent of those old wooden snakes or alligators which were glued to a central strip of leather, or the hinged, tin-plate fishes.
Timeless classic, I grabbed a couple more the other day somewhere, and they went straight to storage, but we have looked at them before, and there has been a follow-up brewing in Picasa for a few years, with contributions, so at some point . . . ?
Pulled-together under the
Star Voyagers branding, there would appear to be the products of two or more lines here, and while the figures are a bit cartoonish or infant-toy in style, there are some useful vehicles and accessories in the sets. And with
Padgett (
A-Z) carrying a similar range, it's clearly a trend!
The traditional 'army men' are a bit thin on the ground these days, but they do turn-up from time to time, the upper ones are Matchbox copies (green) and those seen over the years in
Poundland and the defunct
99p Stores, which Mark (Man of Tin) works his magic on (orange/charcoal), in both cases 35/40mm types. While the lower set is a more conventional 'battle in a bag'!
I had mixed-up images back in 2023, and only realised when sorting these out just now, so I've whipped a section out of the '23
Padgett post and added it to the previous (below this one)
KTL post, also from '23, and now it all makes more sense! The additions are the upper-shot,
Transformer knock-off T-50/60/70-somethings which convert into
Autobot types!
Mostly larger size farm stuff, I know there's little interest in these from even loyal readers, but it all needs to be recorded for posterity, and to help ID the stuff when it comes in loose, a huge series of jobs awaiting me in my final home, with be the naming of the farm, 'Zoo' and Dinosaurs!
And, speaking of Dinosaurs . . .
. . . smallies!
Biggies, seen before here, under several brands,
singly (boxed and in counter display boxes), in pairs and triples!
Biggies with eggs!
These will be in a forthcoming post, held-over as the last of the catch-up sequence from February, because I knew
Kandy was coming! I'd bought a set, last Autumn, out-and-about, and then Peter Evans gave a couple more to the Blog, so there's a nice overview of them, next post, probably. Medium-sized.
Larger, and older/vintage mouldings by the look of them?
Tubbed playsets, medium/small.
Medium-large, just the three?
Another set of smallies, different to the widow-set above?
I haven't seen these out-and-about yet, but I have a feeling we may have seen them loose, so it's a case of retuning to them one day, fully ascribed!
Pretty sure I bought all four of these, just as I was moving into the flat, ready to sell the house a couple of years ago now, hard to believe this crap's been going on for four years-plus now! I don't know if I Blogged them, pretty sure I shot them, so, I'll have a dig. Each set has a subject-related head moulded-on to the toob's cap!
Various selections/formats of wild/zoo animals, sea-life and more species-specific stuff (lizards, cetaceans), including streatchies, jellies, insects, and a few dragons at the bottom.
Definitely the set which includes two of the creatures sent to the Blog by Jon Attwood, one of which I had a duplicate of, with the wings set at a different pose/attitude, seemingly deliberate, possibly a change made in order to allow more units per counter-display carton? There seem to be five to collect, but it could be ten, if they all got their wings moved!
Finishing up with the huge 'soft-play' squeezy, but not squidgy dinosaurs, I think I've previously shelfied such stuff in
TKMaxx or
B&M stores? And as mentioned a closer look at the blister-carded Dino's next, and hopefully I'm back posting again, for a while!
